Progress depends on unbalance and disorder

Abstract

Walking is a state of unbalanced body-not to fall down, it takes away. Technology is another state of progress depending on unbalanced structures of human functions and relations. In balanced societies and cultures which are considered as technologically primitive, what we see is a lack of technology, but also a state of balance and order. It is not surprising to see that great technological developments have appeared under most unstable conditions. Particularly in the industrial period, the Western culture has witnessed enormous instabilities in social, cultural, ethical, logical, and aesthetic structures. During the period of "the immense technological alterations", the world has experienced two large scale wars with countless small scale ones, large scale hunger, and large scale and ever increasing contradictions between parties with social and mental extremities, from religious extremities to drug addiction and high depression. Hand in hand with these developing contradictions and extremities there seems to be another development which appears in the technological area that makes us ask the question: is there is a relation between these issues.